Cleveland Clinic spinoff Tolera Therapeutics is more than halfway to its goal of a $1.65 million round of financing for its immunomodulation therapy for organ transplant.Cofounded by Dr. Maria Siemionow, the leader of the Cleveland Clinic surgery team that performed the nation’s first near-total face transplant in 2008, Tolera is developing a drug intended to [...]

A Cleveland Clinic spinoff that’s developed a self-clearing catheter system has raised its first institutional round of investment funding.Clear Catheter Systems has landed a $4 million round, led by Aphelion Capital and California Technology Ventures, with participation from Research Corporation Technologies, according to a statement from Bend, Oregon-based Clear Catheter.Clear Catheter plans to use the [...]

Two of the Cleveland Clinic‘s greatest doctors ever, Eric Topol and Steven Nissen, have carved out contrasting views on one of the hottest topics in healthcare: personalized medicine.The preeminent cardiologists’ opposing viewpoints recently came to light after Nissen, currently the Clinic’s chair of cardiovascular medicine, penned an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical [...]

Cleveland Clinic researchers are developing an iPad app to help doctors and athletic trainers better diagnose concussions.The app works by strapping an iPad to an athlete’s waist and then measuring changes to the athlete’s postural stability on hard and soft surfaces.“The idea behind the ipad concussion assessment app that we’re working on is to try [...]

Cleveland Clinic did what all health systems do in mid-December: send out news-you-can-use, 2012 predictions about better health in the coming year. This one included top medical tests people should get in 2012.Unfortunately, one of the leading media watchdogs on health news treated the tips like a bad infection. And now the release — which [...]

Life science current events this week include the best Mayo Clinic and Cleveland clinic doctors, tips for healthcare social media and Cleveland Clinic millionaire’s club.

Research led by the Cleveland Clinic‘s Dr. Charis Eng has led to the discovery of three genetic mutations that are linked to thyroid cancer.The research involved nearly 3,000 patients with Cowden syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by multiple noncancerous, tumor-like growths that is related to an increased risk of breast and thyroid cancer, according to [...]

Executives looking to depart from major American hospitals in the near future would do well to put in a call to the lawyer who negotiated David Strand’s severance agreement from the Cleveland Clinic.Despite abruptly leaving the Clinic amidst cloudy circumstances and vague explanations in July 2009, former Chief Operating Officer Strand was the Clinic’s fifth-highest [...]

 2010 was a good year to be a member of the Cleveland Clinic Millionaires’ Club – although what year isn’t?The 13 Clinic employees who received more than $1 million in compensation the prior year did it again in 2010. But the club added two new members: John Petre, the Clinic’s director of clinical space and [...]

MedCity Media president Chris Seper discusses MedCityNews.com’s list of the top 50 doctors to ever practice at Cleveland Clinic. Seper sat down with WKYC News anchor Amanda Barren to go over some of the many medical innovations to come out of the Clinic in its 90 years and the physicians who pioneered them.Our criteria for [...]